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Title: MAN AND HIS KILT, a

Reference number: 2703

Date: 1954*

Director: d. Adam H. Malcolm

Sponsor: Scottish Film Council

Production company: SEFA (Edinburgh Group)

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.00 mins

Description: The weaving of a tartan and making of a kilt.

Film made with co-operation of Lochcarron handloom weavers, Laidlaw & Fairgrieve yarn spinners, Galashiels. D.A. Ferguson Ltd., Tailors, Edinburgh.

See also ref. 6830 held in the Archive for a slightly longer version of this film with different title. This is entitled A KILT IS ORDERED, and is currently on master film stock only - there is no accessible version.

Credits: ph. L.A. Butler

Shotlist: credits (.04) gvs pipe band at a stadium (0.11) gvs students at Edinburgh University Highland Society (0.24) a student orders his kilt from Ferguson's the tailors, Edinburgh (1.03) gvs Lochcarron handloom weavers, Ross-shire where a weaver orders yarn (1.46) gvs Laidlaw & Fairgrieve's spinning factory, Galashiels (1.58) gvs wool being washed (2.45) gvs wool combed (3.00) gvs wool spun into yarn and dyed (4.58) gvs yarn woven at hand loom and checked for faults (6.27) gvs tailor making cloth into a kilt (9.30) gvs owner wearing his new kilt (9.47) credits (10.05)